diff --git a/types/datadog-tracer/datadog-tracer-tests.ts b/types/datadog-tracer/datadog-tracer-tests.ts
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+import Tracer = require('datadog-tracer');
+
+const tracer = new Tracer({
+    service: 'test'
+});
+
+tracer.on('error', (e: any) => {
+    void(0);
+});
diff --git a/types/datadog-tracer/index.d.ts b/types/datadog-tracer/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for datadog-tracer 0.4
+// Project: https://github.com/rochdev/datadog-tracer-js#readme
+// Definitions by: Dinesh Saravanan Kumaraswamy <https://github.com/dineshsaravanan>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+import * as opentracing from "opentracing";
+import { EventEmitter } from "events";
+
+export as namespace Tracer;
+export = Tracer;
+
+interface TracerOptions {
+    service: string;
+    hostname?: string;
+    port?: number;
+    protocol?: string;
+    endpoint?: string;
+}
+
+declare class Tracer extends opentracing.Tracer {
+    constructor(tracerOptions: TracerOptions);
+
+    on(method: "error", cb?: (e: any) => void): void;
+    addEventListener(method: "error", cb?: (e: any) => void): void;
+}
diff --git a/types/datadog-tracer/package.json b/types/datadog-tracer/package.json
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+{
+    "private": true,
+    "dependencies": {
+        "opentracing": "^0.14.1"
+    }
+}
diff --git a/types/datadog-tracer/tsconfig.json b/types/datadog-tracer/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "datadog-tracer-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/datadog-tracer/tslint.json b/types/datadog-tracer/tslint.json
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+{
+    "extends": "dtslint/dt.json",
+    "rules": {
+        "strict-export-declare-modifiers": false
+    }
+}